Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
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A budget indie game from nostalgames, Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War launched in 2025 at $7.99. With 710 Steam reviews and 81% positive sentiment, it fits an underrated, mostly positive option for players browsing Cold War-themed indie releases.
Overview
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War is a 2025 Indie game developed by Nostalgames and published by Nostalgames. On Steam it has gathered 698 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Nostalgames with publisher Nostalgames is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 15,000 to 34,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
698
Positive
81%
Steam appid
1922740
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.015K to 34K
units (median: 24K)
≈ $67K to $156K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 35 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War at roughly 15,000 to 34,000 copies, with a median around 24,000, derived from its 698 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $111K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
13 observed days · window low $7.99Across 13 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $7.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War sold?
- indielist estimates Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War has sold between 14,658 and 34,202 units (median 24,430), derived from its 698 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War?
- Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War was developed by Nostalgames and published by Nostalgames.
- Who published Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War?
- Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War was published by Nostalgames, developed by Nostalgames. See Nostalgames's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War released?
- Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War have on Steam?
- Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War has 698 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War worth playing?
- Steam players rate Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War 81% positive across 698 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Nostalgames's other releases and Nostalgames's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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